If you prefer the English version of the pages linked above, see a set of
three flags at the top of each page in Mapster, where you can change
language to EN or DE.
Please note: we are aware that resolution of some maps scans,
particularly sourced at digital libraries, is... underwhelming. We do
keep track of such items and when the same map or town plan appears
elsewhere, or when we have a chance to scan it at better resolution -
we do, and such poor quality scans will be replaced.
The
final update for A.D. 2013: about 40 new maps and town plans have been
made available in Mapster. Because the files are of various map types,
a list of links can be viewed at the following page: Happy browsing in 2014!
All
broken links on page with irregular WIG maps have been fixed.
We have also added 5 new maps. The
following 27 regular WIG 1:100,000 maps have been added:
Åowicz,
Warszawa Południe, Tymbark-Rabka, Tiegenort, Osieki, Malbork, Elbląg,
Sztum, Grajewo, Callies, Nibork, Åeba, Swarzewo, UjÅ›cie (Ustka),
Lębork, Wejherowo, Puck, Braniewo, Słupsk, Lupowo, Szarkowszczyzna,
Miadzioł, Dokszyce, Wołma, Krzywicze and Kamieniec-Podolski (x 2).
They are older editions of the sheets we already have, from early
1920s. Usually they are re-printed or re-worked older maps (German,
Austrian and Russian), nevertheless they are very interesting, as they
might contain information no longer provided on later editions, such as
the "zaścianki", small settlements of Polish impoverished gentry in the
east of Poland. Also the Åowicz sheet, dated 1924, is pretty
good-looking.
Also, three town-plans: Silva:
Stadtplan Berlin, probably dated 1941 – 1944 Glogau
(Głogów), undated, 1:10,000. Bahnhof
Ratomka – German, WW1 topographic sketch, scale 1:5,000. The
area is a few miles north-east of Minsk, Belarus.
Next update - literature - probably in a week or two. Publications
mainly in German and Polish. After that we should be able to re-focus
on the German WW2 maps of the Soviet Union (Russlan 1:50,000 and
1:100,000)
On 7th and 8th November
(in 3 weeks' time), there's a 2-day workshop organized in Lviv,
Ukraine. The subject is "The Digital and the Visual: New
Approaches to Urban Studies Research of East Central Europeâ€.
Detailed programmed available in
this pdf (in English). Workshops will be held in English and Ukrainian.
Access is free of charge, but you need to register your interest in the
e-mail address provided in the abovementioned pdf - by 20th October. Ref. "how to get there":for UK, best access
is via cheap (aka "budget") airlines, which fly to Krakow and Rzeszow,
and other airlines connect from Western Europe to Krakow. From there
on, you can take a train or a coach to Lviv. If you drive across the
border in your own, or rented vehicle, you can expect to be held up for
many hours on your return journey though.
Mapster:
Because we’re rather busy at work, we’ve had to re-schedule map
updates. This time, we have added about 40 sheets to the German, WW1,
1:100,000 map of western Russia (Karte des westlichen Russlands): H18, K28, K37, L25, O14, O16 -
O18, O35, P17, P19, P31, P32, P35 - P38, Q11, Q14 - Q16, Q36 - Q38,
R36, R37, R40, S36, S38, S41, T35 - T37, T39 - T41, U35 - U38, U40 i U41.
Some of them are different editions, e.g. 1914 and 1915, although no
apparent updates are visible. Most of them are courtesy of the
University of Berkeley library, and the Library of Congress, due to the
efforts of our collegues from www.easteurotopo.org, for which we are very
grateful indeed. Other sheets have been provided by private collectors.
Additionally, three German 1:100,000 (Grossblatt) sheets have been
added: No 37, 67 and 317.
We have overlooked a rather important Mapster update, which happened at
the end of May this year: courtesy of the Institute for Geography and
Geology of the University of Greifswald, Germany,
we have received a permission to scan and make available, some 106
sheets of the Soviet maps of Volhynia (Wołyn),
dated 1939, scale 1:25,000, which are a
re-scaled Russian-Imperial half-verst maps (1:21,000). Three more
sheets of the same map type have been received from the. Kolejne trzy
arkusze uzyskaliśmy ze zbiorów Faculty of Geography and Regional
Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland (where
almost 100 sheets of this map type is identical to the Greifswald
collection).
All sheets of this map type, present and past, have been scanned in 400
dpi (there is an error in Mapster, quoting "600 dpi", this will be
fixed as soon as possible).
The current set of maps complements (although we're far from having a
full set) of a similar collection, which we had received earlier from
the library of the University of Chicago. We do not expect to receive
any more sheets of this type this year.
The next update should appear by the end of this week.
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A few dozen maps (various) have been added to Mapster:
1. Several sheets of the Bildplan
(sometimes "Bildskizze" or "Bildplanwerk", including one, unfortunately
incomplete, but with a respectable resolution of 1200 dpi - south
part of Poznan, in western Poland.
2. A few Messtischblatt (Topographische Karte)
sheets in 1:25,000,
600 dpi, rather than the usual 400 dpi: Lewin Brzeski,
Ostatni Grosz,
Breslau-Lissa,Popław, Kostrzyn
and Lendzin.
The last two sheets are particularly interesting: the Küstrin sheet is
one of the "Geheim" (secret) sheets, showing the fortifications in and
around the town, which were erased from other, civilian
editions. Lendzin sheet has some hand-drawn and planned route
of a "Reichautobahn†on a short stretch between "Gleiwitz" and
"Krakau", and another planned road (north-south) towards a "planned
airport".
3. Several German 1:50,000 maps from
the Ukraine, based on Soviet originals (1943 and
1944).
4. Two Austro-Hungarian 1:75,000 maps (Steniatynand Kamień Koszyrski),
in 600 and 400 dpidpi. The quality of print is poor, it's probably a
field edition dated 1916, but both sheets contain, if you look closely
enough, field narrow gauge, WW1 railways, which are not marked on any
later maps of that area.
5. A few Polish 1:25,000 maps by
WIG (Raszyn, Warszawa Praga,
Mokotów, Wola).
They do not fill up any gaps in the coverage for us, but are
interesting, pre-WW2 editions nevertheless. One of them, (Lubotyń Stary)
contains an interesting set of
stamps and signatures on the reverse, whil Tarnawa
and Kolbuszowa are
pre-production sheets including hand-made corrections, later added to
the print run korekcyjne. Also interesting, is a German edition of a
sheet Majdan pod KolbuszowÄ…,
probably dated 1944. It was made from some original Polish survey
material by WIG, and it also includes military and other installations
and structures added by the Germans (large training groud in the area).
Some of those updates are rather... obvious, but others, less visible.
We have also managed to bring under (some) control the sub-page on
mapywig.org with German maps dated 1919 - 1945. Now we will do the same
with the German maps dated - 1919. The changes are simplification of
the layout were necessary, as adding new scans to the ever growing
lists of maps and updating old sheets takes an awful amount of time,
which could be used, instead to tidy up the site and add new materials.
And yes, there is plenty of new material, which should start appearing
by end of this week.
Hey, Marek! Trying to access maps at your page "Other Central European Maps, via both Chrome and Opera browsers, I get the dialog box "File not found (404 error)
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Hello: I do Polish Genealogy. I need a topo map of Poland with major cities which I’ve never been able to find on the WEB. It should show post partition Poland with an out line of pre-partition Pola
Hi:
Are there any other maps showing parishes such as:
Andrzej Tomczak
Siec parafialna
Wojewoddztwa pomorskiego
Okregu bytowskiego I leborskiego
W drugiej polowie xvi wieku
Skala 1:300.
Thanks
@JMisiewicz
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